[PATCH 1/2] fs: implement d_revalidate

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d_revalidate is useful when filesystems change under the hood of the
fs layer. This can happen with network filesystems or with devfs.

Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/fs.c                | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 include/linux/dcache.h |  3 +++
 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/fs.c b/fs/fs.c
index d76d829140..eed0155f0d 100644
--- a/fs/fs.c
+++ b/fs/fs.c
@@ -1141,6 +1141,12 @@ const struct qstr slash_name = QSTR_INIT("/", 1);
 void d_set_d_op(struct dentry *dentry, const struct dentry_operations *op)
 {
 	dentry->d_op = op;
+
+	if (!op)
+		return;
+
+	if (op->d_revalidate)
+		dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_OP_REVALIDATE;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -1285,6 +1291,35 @@ void d_invalidate(struct dentry *dentry)
 {
 }
 
+static inline int d_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags)
+{
+	if (unlikely(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_OP_REVALIDATE))
+		return dentry->d_op->d_revalidate(dentry, flags);
+	else
+		return 1;
+}
+
+/*
+ * This looks up the name in dcache and possibly revalidates the found dentry.
+ * NULL is returned if the dentry does not exist in the cache.
+ */
+static struct dentry *lookup_dcache(const struct qstr *name,
+				    struct dentry *dir,
+				    unsigned int flags)
+{
+	struct dentry *dentry = d_lookup(dir, name);
+	if (dentry) {
+		int error = d_revalidate(dentry, flags);
+		if (unlikely(error <= 0)) {
+			if (!error)
+				d_invalidate(dentry);
+			dput(dentry);
+			return ERR_PTR(error);
+		}
+	}
+	return dentry;
+}
+
 static inline void __d_clear_type_and_inode(struct dentry *dentry)
 {
 	dentry->d_flags &= ~(DCACHE_ENTRY_TYPE | DCACHE_FALLTHRU);
@@ -1496,7 +1531,7 @@ static struct dentry *__lookup_hash(const struct qstr *name,
 	if (!base)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
 
-	dentry = d_lookup(base, name);
+	dentry = lookup_dcache(name, base, flags);
 	if (dentry)
 		return dentry;
 
diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h
index 16244129bf..1581ddc701 100644
--- a/include/linux/dcache.h
+++ b/include/linux/dcache.h
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ struct dentry {
 };
 
 struct dentry_operations {
+	int (*d_revalidate)(struct dentry *, unsigned int);
 };
 
 struct dentry * d_make_root(struct inode *);
@@ -93,6 +94,8 @@ void d_delete(struct dentry *);
 struct dentry *dget(struct dentry *);
 void dput(struct dentry *);
 
+#define DCACHE_OP_REVALIDATE		0x00000004
+
 #define DCACHE_ENTRY_TYPE		0x00700000
 #define DCACHE_MISS_TYPE		0x00000000 /* Negative dentry (maybe fallthru to nowhere) */
 #define DCACHE_WHITEOUT_TYPE		0x00100000 /* Whiteout dentry (stop pathwalk) */
-- 
2.19.0


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